skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read it? It says at the end "what happened at al-Ahli remains inconclusive"

Not to mention they say they scraped al Jazeera for other incident which is ironic here, because the claim is they misreport

And I will add that everything they said is only based on the videos... The impact on the ground was consistent with PIJ/Hamas rockets and not Israel missiles.

So I will rather believe U.S. Experts/Western intelligence (which since did not report otherwise)... so no Debunking at all:

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-tries-to-back-u...
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GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 have benefited quite a lot of software engineers at a minimum. I don't see why GPT 5 would be any different.
How exactly is the world so much better with GPT 4?

I'm not saying it's not cool tech or that the current level of LLMs don't have some impact, but "the world is so much better" is quite a stretch (unless you are a Nvidia shareholder)

Not to mention the adverse affect of job loss in industries such as customer service almost exclusively hurting people from poorer countries and lower socio economic levels.
Are we talking about the same article? The one titled “Cyclist injured in collision with van amid rush hour traffic in Cambridge”? The very same article where the sentence they complain about is “he was struck by a van”?

What information they can be missing that they can write “he was struck by a van” but not “the van struck him”?
From what I can tell, all the GPT team did was scale up ideas already there invented elsewhere in previous large language models.

I am not sure that is a reason to bet on them making any breakthroughs needed for AGI.
Bret Weinstein suggested this on his podcast - that we select leaders because they would do the best job - and we DON'T let them self-select. They're called to serve similar to jury duty. I don't recall how the selection would be done, which seems like the harder part.
Is this something different to any startup?
Two high school students solved a 2k-year-old math puzzle
>So you seem to be trying to hold Al Jazeera to a vastly higher standard than mainstream US media, at least in this particular regard.

The mainstream US news media would fall foul of broadcasting standards laws in a lot of liberal Western democracies. Here in the UK, due impartiality is a legal duty of news broadcasters. The First Amendment is not the norm globally and the US is exceptionally laissez-faire when it comes to the regulation of broadcast news.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...
Which may have been true in 1970s, today I get told in emails to pass over White and Asian candidates because we need more diversity. The sheer hubris of putting racism in writing makes me feel like I'm in a topsy turvy 1950s.
Sam has always been very skilled at dealing with the media: making grand pronouncements, apocalyptic statements, save the word predictions, rag to riches hero stories. Which is fine. It's hard to get anyone to pay attention to anything, and he's got a nice playbook (and product) to get people to pay attention.

The more interesting question, I think: is OpenAI actually a good business? Can they generate the resources they need to meet their goals and keep control, without selling to big tech companies that will derail their plans? Do they have enough of a moat and can they benefit from network effect to make their products more valuable over time, without getting copied? They realised they need a lot more capital then they initially thought. Time will tell if Microsoft is able to take over - see what recently happened with Inflection AI: After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/after-raising-1-3b-inflect...
EGCS was started because of Stallman. They refused to criticize him directly but it was clear from their Declaration of Independence email that it was Stallman. They even used its language but avoided Stallman’s name to make the eventual merge politically possible.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History#EGCS
I’d rather have a house than shitty fast fashion but your mileage may vary
> players consistently fail to make the editors pay for their bad behaviors.

This comes across as either gaslighting or refusal of evidence - you have a theory that bad players/companies will be punished by the market, and when it doesn't happen, you conclude that it's the consumer's fault.

Maybe you should consider that your theory is wrong, as it does not match the real world. It appears to me that, these days, most of the time bad players do very well in the market.
I guess I should have written it more explicitly but my two most common techniques are:

- ripgrep PATTERN | xargs jq

- find PATTERN -exec jq

In both cases you have a large amount of data in your file system that is in JSON and you want to extract a subset of it for further processing. Ripgrep is an extremely fast way to do a content based search for a pattern and find is a fast way to do a file path based search. Then jq lets you extract the data.

For other types of data I use the same technique of first using ripgrep to find the candidate files and then piping to a text processor like awk/perl/ruby to actually process the data.

If you need FTS rather than regex search then SQLite FTS5 is my go to.

So a full example is something like:

`find . -name “*.pod.json” -print0 | xargs -0 -P 12 -I {} sh -c ‘jq -r “select(.spec.containers != null) | .spec.containers | to_entries[]” sh {} \; | jq -s ‘sort_by(.image)’`

Something like that so it’s sort of like a map-reduce you first narrow the subset of inputs by first finding by file pattern, then you pull out the relevant data from each in a parallel xargs, then you reduce it with a jq -s. This technique is used because jq is very slow on large files and your later processing scripts might be slow so the first step of a good pipeline is to first throw away all the data you don’t need first.
My understanding is that they put a lot of pressure to block things and sometimes offer quid pro quo and sometimes even implant operatives in certain media positions, but legally they can't just come in and shut it down.
It's also discounting workplace efficiency gains. Both white and blue collar jobs are far more efficient than ever before.
When said minority are just as likely to be peers or subordinates within the power structure, I don’t see how it could be ‘from the top’. Do you?
Isn't it any less worse that 170+ journalists were killed among the 30,000+ civilians?

And no, it's unlikely these are journalists who picked up a gun - the IDF is dropping up to 2,000 Lbs bombs, and that's possibly how many are killed; however there have been many reports of journalists homes being targeted in direct strikes, at least one journalist I heard who's wife and children/whole family were killed but he wasn't.

It's not surprising in reality if it's 170+ journalists amongst 30,000+ killed.

There are videos of IDF soldiers harassing and brutally assaulting journalists, if that's any indication of the rules of engagement they subscribe to; I'm obviously not linking to any here on HN - this topic is already a minefield.

What HN is missing is going one layer up, where all of the various points brought up are catalogued-organized - and then allow a second round of discussion, perhaps with a more sophisticated UI/UX for people (from "both"/all sides) to contribute things like citations to evidence/data support the claim/statements, etc; and then those cited sources and data could also then be another layer deeper to constrain or contain further contextualized-narrowed conversation to the analysis of those sources.
haha ok thanks, I was really scratching my head to think about how that would possibly work. I was going back to idea of writing to a file that overwrote itself in sections but it's good to hear that was a joke.
Why do you think that not creating more Hamas isn't also an aim?
My point stands; nobody can mistake this for charity, Sam Altman is selling a product. He is just as conniving as any other businessman when it comes time to act in his own personal interests, which makes him no better than a business as a steward for populist change. I hope OpenAI collapses, so that the market is forced to pick a more responsible leader.
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Can you also go on the record to say what do you think the % odds are that the IDF killed Hamas' hostages (your own fellow citizens) when bombarding Gaza - which they continue to do - which arguably further increases the odds of killing more hostages?

Logically the odds of the hostages being alive would be higher if this wasn't the tactic the IDF decided to use, right?

If I was in command of a military then the hostages would come first, and I would send in soldiers who signed up to potentially give their lives - to exchange soldiers lives for civilians, if need be.
Nothing different than other smart business structurations, the focus in Sam, whatever he deserves, seems to be on purpose to not talk about the forest. Sam is an easy target, it does not require too much research.
I’m not really sure why a large empty space is needed to build a safer road/sidewalk?

Just looking out my front door (suburban DC)… the road is posted 35mm but you can “safely” go 50+ because the lanes are wide and relatively straight. But, there are uncontrolled/no-signal entrances to neighborhoods every 1/4 mile or so, so speeds really should be <30mph (IMO). There are very few signaled pedestrians crossings, so if you need to cross, it’s a game of frogged, or walk a mile out of your way to the nearest full intersection. The bike lanes on the road are just painted on, no protection for cars. And on and on. None of this requires more space - just DOT employees who can think beyond getting around in a car.

We could easily slow the road by narrowing the lane. We could easily add signalled ped crossings. We could easily make the sidewalks continuous (same grade through intersections instead of road level - the benefit is cars enter “pedestrian space” when crossing instead of the other way around). We could add floppy bollards (not sure what they’re called) to give more separation between cars and bicycles (won’t stop a really bad driver, but will at least stop cars from using the bike lane as yet another car lane).
Jeez, I'm a Sam Altman skeptic but this is just another level. How about instead of attacking this guy and literally deconstructing a single-sentence tweet to make him out as an evil bogeyman, we make some constructive arguments for these so-called 'more reliable' ways of building AI and why the current approach is 'deeply flawed'?
Turns out pretending to do useful stuff is actually pretty useful.
I agree with the “eliminate artificial barriers” version of DEI. I’m a huge beneficiary of the push in the 1990s to “not see race.” But I don’t think that’s the dominant version of DEI today. I think the notion that “diverse teams are better” actually erects barriers, because it socializes people to think that the races are different.

I think the situation is different for sex diversity because men and women are different in ways that require accommodation.
In the same manner one can avoid many bad aspects of modern cars if they are an experienced mechanic and can build their own, but that's not a reasonable burden for an average person.
I'm willing to pay taxes for roads, I'm increasingly not cool with paying taxes for parking.

If the space for the road is too small for one lane each way plus parallel parking and ample sidewalk and pedestrian safety. The order of operations for determining what should be build it is : Sidewalks, then if there is room for a road - pedestrian safety, then a single lane road (one way) then a two way road, then we can discuss street parking.
I’m pretty sure that at the end of the day, it comes down to cost.

The author writes as if people who work in this space are not smart. I’m pretty sure everyone realizes bollards saves lives, but are cities going to pay for it? Will constituents support it? Will people be okay either ballooning budgets for transportation works? Especially at the same time when people are asking for money for teachers or some other important issue. Paying for miles of bollards is an easy cut.
Thank you so much! And very good advice: I have an extremely brief and not-descriptive list in the "Next" notebook, initially intended for that. But it definitely falls short.

I may actually expand it in a second "more advanced" series of notebooks, to explore model-based RL, curiosity, and other recent topics: even if not comprehensive, some hands on basic coding exercise on those topics might be of interest nonetheless.
Vehicles partially on a sidewalk probably shouldn't be surprised if they are found with broken headlights, taillights and scratched paint.
> seemed very "1984" to me

In Australia, there was a recent introduction of "Acknowledgement of Country" at both the federal and state government level. Universities and other large institutions are also "doing their part". For example, in video call meetings with more than 'n' people, a manager will read out a statement for a minute at the start of the call acknowledging the "traditional custodians of the land upon which a meeting or event is to take place". In other words, the Aboriginals that white men largely wiped out over 200 years ago. See, e.g.: https://www.indigenous.unsw.edu.au/strategy/culture-and-coun...

So now, the descendants of those white men feel guilty and have to make a little speech before each meeting. It's the most dystopian bullshit I've ever had to personally participate in, ever.

This leads to some truly bizarre moments, like a recent meeting where half of the people were Indian subcontractors physically overseas, everyone else was a first-generation immigrant to Australia, and we had to acknowledge the traditional custodianship of the area by a tribe that was completely wiped out and no longer exists, not even descendants that might appreciate the gesture.

Similarly, in another meeting an "aboriginal elder" was chosen to speak because of their native heritage. That would be nice, except that this person was pasty white, blonde haired, blue eyed, and had freckles. Literally a white person making other white people feel guilty for something their common ancestors did!

The whole thing is an absurd farce played for political points, with no substance of any kind behind it. Actual aboriginals are no better off if in some city office a bunch of people in suits verbally self-flaggilate for sins committed hundreds of years ago by people that they might not even be descendants of. (Half the population is either a first or second generation immigrant!)

I wish there was some term that is the equivalent of "realpolitik", but for race relations, so that I can more succinctly express my disdain for this type of divorced-from-reality behaviour.
No, it just tells me inflation isn't a single scalar multiplier for all kinds of items.
I’ve tried a handful of WiFi light bulbs, smart plugs, and other things. They were connected to a dedicated 2.4GHz access point (MikroTik as well). WiFi signal was fine—had good coverage (access point was central to the small wood frame house, and checking signal strength at device locations showed a great signal) and I live in the middle of a forest and there’s nothing else within range to interfere. Basically best case scenario outside of a lab or something.

I haven’t had a single device that worked reliably. Some worked fairly consistently, but only after a long (and variable) delay. Many others failed to work often enough that, combined with the delays, the workarounds became the normal way of using things.

At this point I’m running basically everything over Z-Wave (via Home Assistant) and it’s been rock solid for me. Especially with the ability to set up direct associations, things like “this dimmer’s state should be synchronized to that dimmer” are very responsive and reliable, not involving my controller or Home Assistant at all.

Hard to say whether you’re lucky or I’m unlucky—most people having a good experience aren’t going to take to the internet to start a crusade about it—but I do occasionally see someone recommending or saying that Z-Wave or Zigbee has been reliable for them… I think yours is the first I’ve read where someone’s been happy with WiFi.
Our city uses them to protect the city center from traffic while giving access to delivery vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists
> Can you openly call for the murder of <enter ethnic group> in the US under the protection of the first amendment ?

Yes. We see this with open chants of "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and "Globalize the Intifada"

...as long as the call is not likely to produce "imminent lawless action". Brandenburg v. Ohio was a decision by the Supreme Court establishing the "imminent lawless action" test for determining when speech advocating illegal conduct is not protected by the First Amendment. The Court held that speech is protected unless it is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
There's irony and arrogance in much of what you say, especially "When the facts are being twisted and misinformation endangers human life, there is a responsibility to get it right or shut it down."

What if that actually applies to you and what you believe, that perhaps you've been successfully been trained with misinformation and twisted truth?

What if in fact there is a genocide going on but the population who Netanyahu needs to continue to support him has had propaganda used on them for so long that it's manufactured consent for a genocide - that some people are misled to believe it isn't.

These conversations need to happen but they haven't for obvious reasons - and it's always going to be the bad actor who's wanting the truth to be hidden; perhaps exhibit A for this is Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire - while publicly discussing doing a debate between Ben and Candace Owens - they behind the scenes were seeking and received a gag order on Candace; please of video overviews of this:

Breaking Points (4:43 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1Jhed1-iA

Mark Dice (17 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9nrRH2WeUo

Glenn Greenwald (23 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOh3GJxes28

etc.

The problem is most people don't stay engaged in the discussion long enough, and the ideological mob side knee-jerk reacts away to be dismissive in anger-rage and discuss - short-circuiting their critical thinking, perhaps the cognitive dissonance is too painful as well, denial of the possibility of how could your precious government do such a horrific thing?
I haven't taken anything Gary says seriously since like 2017. I'd recommend others do the same, you'll save yourself a lot of time.
Don’t grow weed in your garden unless you are certain it is legal to do so.
Long time HN-er

I'm flagging this. It's not because I give a hoot about sama but because this kind of crap is posted only to lead to endless discussion.

Get to work. Focus. Whatever the hell Sam is can wait for another day.
> we make some constructive arguments for these so-called 'more reliable' ways of building AI and why the current approach is 'deeply flawed'?

FWIW, Gary Marcus wrote an entire book[1] that, from what I can tell, purports to do that. I have not read the book (yet) so I can't personally attest to how well it meets that goal, but at least be aware that it exists.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Rebooting-AI-Building-Artificial-Inte...
They last about three months, then you are back to a painted line.
I think it also has hurt a lot of software engineers in a number of different ways. AI assisted programming tools are an experiment and the jury is still very much out.
> that's what humans do too.

Maybe so, but is it ALL humans do???? If not, then what about, how to do, the rest???
You can't know to what extent a government will behave, and people will have different limitations and tolerances.

It's why referendums exist - however the more authoritarian a government becomes, the less they want the population voting specifically on issues to maintain more control over policy (and the population), e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_Canada
What the hell is a “DEI” statement anyways? The site is a bit light on what this means, only a bunch of satirical and sarcastic posts. Almost feels like it was generated by LLM.

Is it something like this?

“I helped a group of first generation, low income students apply to college and obtain $50,000 in grants”

Not sure what’s wrong with this…
Unfortunately in the US cars aren't as easy to get as guns...
They have a lot of potential political power. They refuse to use it.
I disagree strongly with this. GPT has:

- Precipitated a new class of computationally intense and expensive systems at a time when we desperately need to be focused on sustainability and reducing power demands/increasing efficiency.

- Devalued human labor without being high enough quality to truly replace it.

- Grossly violated an unspoken social contract of the internet by abusing the commons, leading to many people locking down their content.

- Flooded the internet with unverifiable noise that looks credible, making it harder to find high quality information and enabling scams and laziness.

At best this productivity tool is of neutral value to society. If you think it's a net good, I question your judgment.
The academic job is primarily about getting funding for further work. If ten years of work were proven wrong, the academic may worry that funding agencies may stop funding them. "You've been doing the wrong work for a decade!"

So while the academic may not mind being proven wrong in their hypotheses/results/conclusions, they may stress about not being able to get more funding.
GPT-4 is peak LLM, nothing will likely be able to surpass it by these same methods for a long time. The only novel product OpenAI could release at this point is a fully uncensored and unrestrained GPT.

Introducing: GPT-ns4w
Thank you for finding the relevant allegations. They certainly do sound more damning, though that's to be excepted if you take the prosecution at face value.

This part jumps out:

> the landlord’s regional manager

Why would the owner of a property have a regional manager? That makes it sound like they're deliberately conflating local property managers with actual landlords. I suppose if the actual landlords are passive REIT investors, then there's still a possibility of actual collusion.
This is how marriages end in divorce. Haha.
> Applicants for a desirable position are likely to come from the majority group of your region. So for a minority candidate to be selected they would not only have to be equal to the others - but better.

Your second sentence here doesn't actually follow from the first.
63, according to the paper they wrote about it in 1965. https://ibm-1401.info/1401-IBM-Systems-Journal-FORTRAN.html:

“The 1401 FORTRAN compiler has 63 phases, an average of 150 instructions per phase, and a maximum of 300 instructions in any phase.”

The phases aren’t all what I would call a compilation phase, though. For example, phase zero:

“Phase 00 - Snapshot. Loads a snapshot routine into 350 positions of core storage. This routine lists a specified amount of core storage.”